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Live Ballast

Live Ballast is an album and live performance piece, a collaboration-in-progress by Julia Barbosa Landois and Erik Sanden. We began the project using dream journals and family narratives of travel from Mexico and Finland. Weaving music, narrative storytelling, surreal imagery and video projections, we aim to capture the sense of utter displacement that comes with a long journey into new and dangerous environs. “Live ballast” is the use of passengers’ bodies as stabilizing weight to keep a ship upright in challenging seas.